25 May 2009
We are minus three vest buttons, ..
in consequence of having heard a characteristic anecdote respecting the editor of a Boston literary journal. Walter Scott, jr., was present recently at a familiar discussion of musical matters, and he, without hesitation, gave it as his opinion that “Lucrezia Borgia is one of the greatest singers in the country.”
A gentleman present remarked that Lucrezia Borgia was an opera.
“Oh, yes,” was his reply, “I know that she sings in opera altogether.”
